Category: Logistics and planing

Finding a name This summer, Mark and I started the itch to get our boat officially named and registered. Naming a boat, more so a boat we built over many years of dedication, is not trivial, this name will be her identity. We need to feel attached to her name and…

A few month back we received our dream windlass from http://www.deepblueengineering.co.uk/ ( Is there such thing as “dream windlass” ? – sure is for us! ) Playing around with our new “toy” (truly far from toy quality) we realized we should have ordered 2 handles with it. The boat is nowhere…

We are officially one foot into the next phase of the boatbuilding project: the wood work.Wood will be used for the interior and for some trim work and rigging attachment on deck.Mark had been exploring different options: purchasing wood as we need, buy a lot of wood, would we want…

Today turned out to be an amazing day! A huge thanks to all that came to help us. We got the mast home and you definitely made this move easy. More so, feeling we have friends who will get out of there way to give us a hand with this…

After this nice stretch of sunny weather, a couple days of rain are welcome for my body to take a break. That doesn’t mean the work on the boat stops. While Mark went varnish the mast and tackled a well needed clean up on the boat and shop, I work…

I was dreaming, it was a good dream but I can’t remember what about. I know I was enjoying my peaceful sleep when the loud voice pulled me out of this heavenly state.“F**k! Murielle! Did ou pull out the hardener and and antiskid out of the Defender box? Fu**! F***!”It’s…

Please stop asking me “when”. I don’t know when I will be done building this boat. I don’t know when we will be launching. I don’t know when I will live on a boat again. I know I am proud of every step forward in the realization of this project….

These are my favorite moments of the boat building life, when we sit down and day dream together. Day dreaming in the “comfort” of the boat also means tossing thoughts, discussing the next building steps and its usually when we make most of our decisions and come up with our…

The latest big deal was the purchase of our engine: a Perkins Sabre M92B. We had been looking at Beta Marine also but this engine came up as the right engine, for a great price, at the right time. We could have delayed this purchase but having the engine will make…

….not that we ever stopped… The last post does date back quite a bit and there has been a year without work on the boat but I also have a lot of catching up to do on the website. So the question I keep getting: “Where is the project at?”The…